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HOOVER, HERBERT (1)
HOOVER, HERBERT (1)
ScnMaster
political
leader
of the twentieth century, who was US
president
from 1929 to 1933. He had been in
office
only a few months when the
Great Depression
(the great
slowdown
in the
American
economy
from 1929 to the early 1940s) began. In the
late
1940s, he was head of a
commission
to make the
federal
government
more efficient.
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Academy
Level
I Glossary - Approved November 1990